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Rehan Ahmed and Will Jacks' rapid 44-run partnership turned the game as England chased down a target of 160 with three balls to spare and beat New Zealand by four wickets in the Twenty20 World Cup Super Eights on Friday.

Daniil Medvedev reached the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final on Friday and will face unseeded Tallon Griekspoor as the Russian attempts to achieve something that has eluded him throughout his stellar career - winning the same tournament twice.

Manchester City were drawn against Real Madrid in the Champions League knockout phase for the sixth time since the 2019-20 season after the draw for the last 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals was made on Friday.

A rampant India piled up a record total and handed Zimbabwe a 72‑run thrashing in a Super Eight contest on Thursday to revive their Twenty20 World Cup title defence.

Top seed Felix Auger-Aliassime is through to the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships after beating eighth seed Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 7-6.

The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved an $8.1 billion, four-year loan for Ukraine on Thursday, with $1.5 billion to be disbursed immediately to help keep the government running as its war against Russia's invasion drags into a fifth year.

Paramount Skydance has emerged as the winner in a months-long battle to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, after streaming giant Netflix on Thursday refused to raise its bid for the storied Hollywood studio.

Dubai carrier flydubai has posted a strong 2025 performance driven by record revenue, passenger growth and strategic network expansion, with profit before tax reported at AED2.2 billion ($591 million).

Warner Bros Discovery has opened the door on Tuesday to Paramount Skydance after the rival bidder raised its offer to $31 per share.

Etihad Airways has reported a record AED2.6 billion profit for 2025, the strongest financial performance in its history.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will begin an official visit to Ecuador on Sunday, at the invitation of President Daniel Noboa.

Contributions to the 'Edge of Life' campaign to rescue five million children from hunger have exceeded AED460 million, one week after its launch.

Abu Dhabi has launched a pilot project to operate autonomous trucks within Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (KEZAD).

Dubai Police have intensified night patrolling in residential areas after several teenagers were caught doing dangerous stunts on quad or motor bikes.

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has opened a 1,000-metre, two-lane bridge to link Sheikh Zayed Road and Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Street, and cut travel time from six minutes to one minute.

The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable Establishment has pledged AED20 million to the UAE's 'Edge of Life' campaign that aims to rescue 5 million children from hunger.

UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has held bilateral talks with his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto during a meeting at Qasr Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE's aid ship "Umm Al Emarat" has docked at Egypt's Al Arish Port with more than 7,300 tonnes of relief supplies for Gaza.

NASA is adding a spacecraft docking test to its Artemis moon programme before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century, overhauling the flagship US moon effort amid mounting delays and competitive pressure from China.

Pakistan has bombed Taliban government targets in Afghanistan's major cities overnight, officials from both countries said on Friday, with Pakistan's defence minister describing the conflict as "open war".

An Indian court on Friday declined to proceed with a trial against opposition leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an alleged corruption case that his party has labelled as politically motivated.

Former President Bill Clinton is due to testify on Friday behind closed doors to a congressional panel about his ties to the late convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a congressional committee on Thursday that she did not remember ever meeting the late convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein and had no information to share about his criminal activities.

Ukrainian and US officials met in Geneva on Thursday for talks on post-war reconstruction despite a deadlock in peace negotiations with Russia, which pounded infrastructure across Ukraine with drone and missile strikes overnight.

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the territory's health officials said, and the Israeli military said it killed a rebel who posed a threat to its forces in the south of the enclave.

Cuban forces have killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed aboard a Florida-registered speedboat on Wednesday and opened fire on a patrol, the government said at a time of heightened tensions with the US.